14 years and I still check back here every once in a while :)

[makntraks]

My first post (from the search results of my posts in threads).

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/118001-How-do-I-uninstall-the-gear-drivers-that-came-with

My how 14 years later things have gotten so much easier! All you newbs have ir made lol!

Maybe there are a still a few old timers here?!?!?!?! Chime in and say hi!

makntraks

[redwudz]

There's a few of us still around.

[gadgetguy]

I don't post much anymore, but I'm still around.

[stiltman]

I do drive bye's too

[tgpo]

I just got shot by a drive-by. Did anyone catch the license plate of that ugly guy on stilts?

[ozymango]

Oddly enough I just recently logged back in here recently wondering how long I'd been a member; gads I hate that I'm becoming one of those old people who see something dated 1995 and go "wasn't that just last year?"

EDIT: And I used "recently" twice in the space of one line, gads, I'm a geezer.

[lordsmurf]

Still hangin' on.
My life has really changed, and changed again, since joining here.

[TreeTops]

Good to see that you are still kicking, lordsmurf.

[p_l]

*drops by two months later*

Yup, still check in from time to time. Here's my take. In a way, youtube, FB and the ilk ruined videohelp. It used to be that it was a fun challenge making digital video, from VCDs to SVCDs to DVDs to AVCHDs to Blu-rays, but now, with a few notably impressive exceptions, everybody just uploads a phone vid to youtube or FB.

Don't even get me started about vertical video. Even that battle has seemingly been lost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA

[VideoGuruDude]

Im still here from the old VCD days.. IIRC, vcdhelp.com

https://web.archive.org/web/20010901000000*/vcdhelp.com

Yeah, I think Im showing my age...

I cannot remeber my prior login data, I was AWOL for a while, so I signed up with this account to get back on.

Andrew

[bendixG15]

Oddly enough I just recently logged back in here recently wondering how long I'd been a member; gads I hate that I'm becoming one of those old people who see something dated 1995 and go "wasn't that just last year?"

EDIT: And I used "recently" twice in the space of one line, gads, I'm a geezer.

The world is full of geezers

[zzyzzx]

This forum still exists???

[pchan]

If I remembered correctly, I posted on this forum without any registration. I was looking for some solution to my video capture card. Some guy by the name of ... Smith replied me and recommended AVI_IO. Someone else suggest driver for my BT848 capture card. My video capture quality improved a lot. The countless flame wars were very enjoyable.

[Drowning]

Looks like there are still many people hanging on this forum

[SquirrelDip]

Been a long time since I've logged in. Usually looking for some conversion software or guide but will check the Off topic.

[gll99]

I stay logged in 24/7 but don't comment much anymore. At least nothing very meaningful unless I spot and report a spammer. It's just an open tab in my browser that I click on a couple of times a day. I'm still interested in specific topics having to do with HD caps, playback, Graphedit and stuff like that. I download some freeware programs as they get updated just to archive them to disc for myself. You never know when a tool or site will disappear. I've had that happen before. There is a lot of crap on DVD and BD discs that will never be used but that's nothing new I've been doing it since floppies and CDs. I have a couple of Hauppauge usb cap devices and a little used Avermedia version so I still capture tv shows as a pastime but rarely cut, edit or author anymore. A poor man's PVR of sorts. I've also gone back to playing with some of my old VB6 programs since I've been able to install it on Win7 and Win10 although I still use my trusty XP box to browse most of the time. Nothing too exciting.

[hardy]

16 years for me

[Forum Troll]

mee too lol

[hardy]

Technically, 16 1/2 and counting

[pacmania_2001]

just found my old login

[tgpo]

Geez, y'all are old!

[hudsonf]

I don't normally post any more but I do check in once in awhile.

[hardy]

I will be retiring soon. My time has come to an end.

[stiltman]

I will be retiring soon. My time has come to an end.

You're not allowed to retire

[tgpo]

You're not allowed to retire

That's the American way!

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

Is this the secret thread where only old people can comment?.

15 years for me.

GET OFF MY LAWN!

[rhegedus]

15 years.

Not posted for 6.

[lordsmurf]

Several memorable memories:

1. The member who asked the community if he should date a stripper. He was all weirded out when he found out what her job was, and acted like stripper=STD. I remember that all his of replies were along the lines of "are you stupid?" and he did. I think he eventually married her a year or two later.

2. naked-geek flipping out when caught rebadging the cheapest -- literally, THE cheapest (quality and price) -- Chinese fake AN32 coded junk. My offer to independently test the media was met with a wild-eyed insane response. That was a quick ban.

3. Gina. She was nuts.

4. tag-tearm testing hardware/encoders with GShelley61 (retiring broadcast engineer), SatStorm (tech/video journalist based in Greece), and BJ_M (worked at Iwerks). Fun times. But we all moved on, and they've not been here for many years now.

Some things you may not have known:

A. adam the "lawyer" (student, paralegal?), former mod that kamikazi'd himself as mod to attempt to ban me (WTF?). He believed in conspiracy theories, which made him a caricature of the typical backwards Texan. He was about as right-wing as could be, and considered law infallible -- unless he himself didn't like the law in question.

B. kwag, "creator" of the non-format "format" (KVCD) that was all bluster and BS. We rescued his dying site, and retained it for the old-school historical video info (Avisynth, TMPGEnc, etc), now found at http://www.digitalFAQ.com/archives (currently in read-only state).

C. The "Digital Dolphin" (aka Dolphinius Rex, aka LordDolphin -- FYI, the "lord" moniker came along after he crossed paths with me) -- and mostly posted at redflagdeals, cdfreaks, etc, but the VH reviews sections as well. Yet never the VH forum (too scared we'd call him on his nonsense, ala naked-geek?). He was a self-proclaimed "media expert" that was actually an overweight cosplaying college kid that collected anime (hence using blank DVDs) and worked at a comic book store. A decade or so earlier, and he literally could have been the design model for Comic Book Guy in the Simpsons. "Expert" at everything ... but not really. His "testing" was a few discs he begged or bought, never more than a dozen or so. Yet, sadly, many people believed his nonsense.

[stiltman]

Wasn't Gina an alter ego of capmaster?

[tgpo]

Wasn't Gina an alter ego of capmaster?

I don't believe so. I think she was...something different entirely.